The Muskegon County Prosecutor’s Office released their decision this week.

Michigan State Police Detective Lt. Cam Henke, in charge of the Sixth District Special Investigation Section, said his detectives did a “thorough investigation” and he has “no issues” with the prosecutor’s ruling.

“Our job is to do a complete and thorough investigation and we certainly feel we did so in this case and support whatever conclusion the prosecutor has reached,” Henke said. “Our job is to find the facts and conduct as thorough investigation as we can, and I believe we did that.”

The prosecutor’s office decided more than a year ago that there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone with a crime for what may have been tens of thousands of dollars missing in early 2010 from the Muskegon Heights Police Department evidence room.

The prosecutor's office just recently released their decision.

The “total disarray” in the evidence room, the lack of proper documentation of money transactions for years and uncontrolled access to the room made it impossible to prove even that money was stolen, let alone who might have done so if it was, according to a memo this week from Chief Assistant Prosecutor Brett Gardner to Henke.

Gardner’s Jan. 29 memo, obtained by MLive and The Muskegon Chronicle, “memorializes a communication” between the prosecutor’s office and the state police “over a year ago.”

Gerard in February 2012 left her longtime job heading the Victim-Witness Unit of the Muskegon County Prosecutor's Office, which assists and advocates for victims of crime, to be the department’s evidence room technician.

Gill said she has been a much-needed asset to the department.

“We are doing an excellent job with organizing. It’s great. Amy has done a great job down here. She has it organized and continues to do things to improve it. It’s more efficient and more effective,” Gill said.

The prosecutor’s office concluded that criminal charges couldn’t be brought based on a lengthy, massive investigation by the state police.

The investigation was launched in April 2010 after then-acting Muskegon Heights Police Chief Ron Rake alerted authorities to the unorganized condition of the department’s evidence room and indicated money appeared to be missing. Rake was brought in as interim chief after the unexpected death Nov. 1, 2009, of Chief Clifton Johnson.

Authorities made it clear early on that neither Gill nor any current city government officials were involved.

According to Gardner’s memo, the state police investigation took almost a year to complete, with more than 1,000 pages of supporting documentation. It included additional follow-up investigation requested by the prosecutor’s office.

The memo is scathing about procedures in the department’s evidence room before Rake took over as interim chief. Those procedures have since been remedied.